David A Jaycock
Presets

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...according to our Dave on 26 August 2010.

...I broke my leg in two places, My doctor says I should stop going to those places..there's nothing like a shitty joke to liven up proceedings. This David A. Jaycock sounds like he needs some crap gags to turn his frown upside down. I don't know the feller, he could be the happiest man alive, with a basket of puppies and clothes made of sweets and saccharine smiles. I wager he isn't. His music is maudlin misery and it's your entertainment. It sounds quite good and he's obviously an accomplished songwriter. His strengths are texture and mood, understated vocals and shimmering electronica. His weaknesses are alcoholism and dropsy. I'm just kidding...this album is quite the sprawling opus it wants to be, and is intent on wringing sadness and melancholy from every musical sponge. It might be a miserablist classic....

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What their label says...

Debut vinyl LP from Manchester's David A. Jaycock (who is also a member of Big Eye Family Players), David recently had a 7" on the excellent Great Pop Supplement and 'Presets' follows on from that fine release. 'Presets' features 12 tracks of melancholic folk almost entirely performed by David on a variety of instruments, and its a real step forward to darker areas than his previous releases on Great Pop Supplement, Early Winter Recordings and The Red Deer Club. The record retains some of the more haunting vocal and guitar moments from afformentioned excursions, and at times is comparable to Ben Chasny's Six Organs of Admittance, but it has a much stranger and hard to place approach and sound, with some fantastic dark creepy tracks, blurring creaking, clunking objects with something that sounds like guitar, transformed into something far more sinister... but somehow at the same time retains a feeling that everything isn't quite as bleak as it seems. Edition of 250 with pro printed sleeves. Pressed on virgin vinyl.